“ It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives. ”
After being told that the Professor “found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God,” Isak thought, “Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elgon, to believe for a moment in the existence of Professor Landgreen?
~ Isak Dinesen
The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key,—the minor key,—to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who deny tragedy, who will not tolerate it, and to whom the word of tragedy means in itself unpleasantness.
The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the ocean.
I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....
